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    Abigail Van Buren
    “The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.”
    ― Abigail Van Buren
    tags: character, life, wisdom
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    Ovid
    “Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.”
    ― Ovid
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    Leslie Lee Sanders
    “If I didn't love so damn hard I
    wouldn't have someone to risk my life for.”
    ― Leslie Lee Sanders, Before the Darkness
    tags: dystopian, dystopian-fiction, erotic-romance, gay-romance, mm, post-apocalyptic
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    Sharon Pollock
    “There is nobility in the struggle, you don't have to win.”
    ― Sharon Pollock
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    Joshua Slocum
    “I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”
    ― Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone around the World
    tags: alone, books, friends, solitude
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    Rabindranath Tagore
    “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.”
    ― Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
    tags: aspiration, assurance, beauty, clouds, color, conviction, inspirational, maturity, sunset
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    Eoin Colfer
    “It's like learning to ride a unicorn. You never forget.”
    ― Eoin Colfer, Artemis Fowl
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    William Styron
    “We're all in this game together.”
    ― William Styron
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    Jerry Garcia
    “What a long strange trip it's been.”
    ― Jerry Garcia
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    Yann Martel
    “It is true that those we meet can change us, sometimes so profoundly that we are not the same afterwards, even unto our names.”
    ― Yann Martel, Life of Pi
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    Jean Shepherd
    “The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.”
    ― Jean Shepherd
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    E. Nesbit
    “There is nothing more luxurious than eating while you read—unless it be reading while you eat. Amabel did both: they are not the same thing, as you will see if you think the matter over.”
    ― E. Nesbit, The Magic World
    tags: eat, eating, humor, luxury, reading
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    Cathrina Constantine
    “All we've ever wanted was to live in peace," said Fulvio, "you'd think we were asking for the moon."
    "You gonna lasso the moon?"
    "Someday my friend. Someday...”
    ― Cathrina Constantine, Tallas
    tags: dystopian-thriller
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    Curtis Sittenfeld
    “I always worried someone would notice me, and then when no one did, I felt lonely.”
    ― Curtis Sittenfeld, Prep
    tags: anonymity, blending-in
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    Roald Dahl
    “So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.”
    ― Roald Dahl
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    François de La Rochefoucauld
    “If we had no faults we should not take so much pleasure in noting those of others.”
    ― François de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
    tags: criticism
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    William Faulkner
    “Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
    ― William Faulkner
    tags: advocacy, dissent, protest, truth, truth-telling
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    Laura Esquivel
    “Each of us is born with a box of matches inside us but we can't strike them all by ourselves”
    ― Laura Esquivel, Like Water for Chocolate
    tags: fire, love, lust, matches
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    Harvey Pekar
    “Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff.”
    ― Harvey Pekar
    tags: life, writing
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    Anne Enright
    “People do not change, they are merely revealed.”
    ― Anne Enright, The Gathering
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    Hettie Jones
    “are you breathing, are you lucky enough
    to be breathing”
    ― Hettie Jones
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    Monica Ali
    “The thing about getting older is that you don't need everything to be possible any more, you just need things to be certain.”
    ― Monica Ali, Brick Lane
    tags: life
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    Zadie Smith
    “You are never stronger...than when you land on the other side of despair.”
    ― Zadie Smith, White Teeth
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    Maxine Hong Kingston
    “In a time of destruction, create something.”
    ― Maxine Hong Kingston
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    James Jones
    “That was one of the virtues of being a pessimist: nothing was ever as bad as you thought it would be.”
    ― James Jones, From Here to Eternity
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    Zlata Filipović
    “The people must be the ones to win, not the war, because war has nothing to do with humanity. War is something inhuman.”
    ― Zlata Filipović
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    Nalo Hopkinson
    “Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.”
    ― Nalo Hopkinson, Sister Mine
    tags: perfection
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    W.B. Yeats
    “I have spread my dreams under your feet.
    Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
    ― W.B. Yeats
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  • #31
    “All is calm, all is bright.”
    ― Joseph Mohr
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